Google celebrated the 100th birthday of the famous British paleoanthropologist with a Google Doodle on February 6, leading to over 2.7 million views, the highest weekly views of any article to date in 2013.

It was announced this week that the long missing remains of the former King of England, who died in 1485, had been positively identified. Even the article about Shakespeare's play Richard III saw a boost, appearing at #300 on the WP:5000 this week with 124,390 views.)

An IndianTamil spy thriller film released on January 25, starring Kamal Haasan. Only down slightly from 555,463 views last week, though in a week with many highly popular articles it drops from #3 to #22 on the Top 25.

This list is derived from the WP:5000 report. It excludes the Wikipedia main page (and "wiki"), non-article pages, and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). One notable removal this week: Ernst Litfaß (919,854 views), with an unexplained massive spike in views from Feb. 1–8. Litfaß (or Litfass) was the German inventor of Advertising columns. Whether the views are the work of a spambot with a sense of humour is unknown. The German Wikipedia version saw no view spike.